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Oct 03, 2024
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Doosan lost 0-1 in the wild card match against KT Wiz at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 3rd.
Doosan finished fourth this season. The wild card is played in two games, and the team that finished fourth has a one-win advantage. The fourth-place team can advance to the semi-playoff if it wins one win or one draw. In the all-time wild-card game, the fourth-place team has never failed to advance to the semi-playoff.
He became a scapegoat for Doosan. In the first game, Kwak Bin gave up four runs in the first inning, and even the batters were coldly silent. One shot did not continue in the difficult chance. In the end, they lost 0-4.
a fresh start to the second game. This time, the pitching staff held out. Starting pitcher Choi Seung-yong completely blocked KT's batters with four scoreless innings in four ⅔. One point in the top of the sixth inning was painful. Lee Byung-hun, who took the mound in the top of the fifth inning, also came up in the sixth inning. He was hit by a double by leadoff hitter Rojas, and gave a point with Jang Sung-woo's base hit and Kang Baek-ho's timely hit.
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Last year, Doosan succeeded in advancing to the wild card final after finishing fifth in the regular season. However, Kwak Bin, the first starter, hit a grand slam, and eventually had to finish the fall baseball in one game.
He started the postseason at a higher level this season, but the result came back to the same result as a failure to advance to the semi-playoff. The process was different, but the result was the same in a disastrous autumn.
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Doosan had a difficult season this season due to a string of foreign pitchers. Alcantara, who renewed his contract with high expectations as an ace, left the team with a record of 2 wins, 2 losses and an ERA of 4.76 in 12 games due to an elbow injury. Jordan Balazovic was newly joined in place of Alcantara, but he did not meet expectations with 2-6 losses and a 4.34 ERA in 11 games. Balazovic played as a bullpen, not a starter, in the postseason, and succeeded in restoring his honor with four scoreless innings in the first game, but the fall baseball was over with that one game.
Brandon showed good performance until June with 7-4 losses and a 3.12 ERA in 14 games this season, but failed to return due to a scapular injury.
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The fans' view of director Lee was also not good. It has prevented weaknesses in the starting lineup due to the departure of foreign pitchers with bullpens. Young pitchers such as Choi Ji-gang, Lee Byung-hun, and Kim Taek-yeon had no choice but to go to many games, leading to the controversy of 'overuse'.
In the second game, Choi Seung-yong's pitch fell and when he was replaced with two outs in the fourth inning, there were also boos rather than applause of encouragement.
Although he was fourth in the regular season and made it to the postseason for the second consecutive year, coach Lee Seung-yeop was in ㅗ to face the stove league in the cold autumn wind.
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